The builder of the house

In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.

 I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2

 

Read Hebrews 3:1—6

Moses a servant. Christ the Son. Moses on the outside, looking in, doing what he’s told. Christ on the inside, looking out and over all things, doing what the heart and purpose and will of the Father is. Christ the inheritor and owner of all things. And me? Where am I in all this? If Christ is greater than Moses, then in all humility — no, I won’t say it. I’m not a patch on Moses’ cloak. Let me say it like this: I stand in a more privileged place than my brother Moses. Moses stayed outside the Promised Land looking in.[1] Jesus has called me not servant but friend.[2] He has shared with me what he has from the Father.[3] He has granted me his Spirit so that I can join him in saying Father, dear Father.[4] Has promised me a place in the Father’s house,[5] a share in his own inheritance.[6] So brother Moses would, one way, happily have exchanged places with me!

 

All that I am and have, all that I am promised, Father, dear Father, I have from you through your Son. I have known it all through your Spirit. Even my brother Moses, I now see, had what he had only because you gave yourself to him to be known, ‘I am who I am; I will be who I will be.’[7] You give yourself. You give yourself in Jesus. You give me, ultimately, myself through Jesus: child of God and inheritor of his house. Friend. Befriended by Jesus.

 

[1] Deuteronomy 34:1—8

[2] John 15:15

[3] John 3:35

[4] Romans 8:15—16; Galatians 4:5—7

[5] John 14:2

[6] Romans 8:17

[7] Exodus 3:14